Welcome to Members of the Press

Music education is a hot topic these days! MENC: The National Association for Music Education is your source for music education information.

Dear Journalist,

MENC: The National Association for Music Education represents more than 130,000 music teachers, secondary school and college music students, and friends and supporters of music education. For more than a century we have been providing crucial and timely information to our members. We can provide information for articles to you, too!

John J. Mahlmann, MENC's executive director, and our president, Barbara Geer, can be interviewed for comments on the state of music education in the United States and a variety of other music education issues.

We can arrange for you to interview experts on the following topics:

General Music -- School Budgets -- Music Teacher Shortage --Brain Research -- National Standards for Arts Education -- Assessment of National Standards -- Band, Chorus, and Orchestra -- Block Scheduling -- Cross-Disciplinary Learning -- Early Childhood Music -- History of Public School Music in the U.S. -- Inclusion (Mainstreaming) -- Music Therapy -- Site-Based Management -- Student Orchestra Involvement -- Music Technology

We can provide you with articles written for MENC journals on a variety of music education topics, giving you access to well-researched facts and figures for your story. 

I hope you will contact MENC for background information or quotes from an expert in music education when you next write about this important topic. Please feel free to contact me by e-mail or at  703-860-4000. I look forward to hearing from you!

Sincerely,

Elizabeth Lasko
Director, MENC Public Relations